Users Guide

state. Executing this task on this drive takes additional time, because the drive needs
to spun up.
You should be familiar with the size requirements and other considerations associated with hot spares.
Setting The Physical Disk Online Or Offline
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
The Online and Offline tasks apply only to physical disks that are included in a redundant virtual disk and attached to a PERC
controller.
Select the Offline task to deactivate a disk before removing it. Select the Online task to reactivate an offline disk. In some
cases, you may want to use the Online task on a failed disk in an attempt to recover data from the disk.
Online Or Offline The Physical Disk
To set the Online or Offline Task the physical disk:
1. Review the physical disk that must be made online or offline. There may be data loss when performing this task. Back up
your data, if necessary. If you want to blink the physical disk, click Blink.
2. Click Online or Offline when ready or click Return to Previous Page.
To Locate Online Or Offline In Storage Management
To locate this task in storage management:
1. In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller objects.
2. Expand a controller object.
3. Expand a connector object.
4. Expand the enclosure or backplane object.
5. Select the Physical Disks object.
6. Select Online or Offline from the Tasks drop-down menu of the physical disk you want to make online or offline.
7. Click Execute.
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
Select the Clear Physical Disk task to erase data residing on a physical disk. The Clear task applies to physical disks that are in
Ready state and that contain data or that are in Clear state.
NOTE:
A physical disk may display the Clear state if it is a member of a virtual disk that is being slow initialized. Performing
a Cancel Clear task on the physical disk causes the Slow Initialize task to be canceled for the entire virtual disk.
To clear the physical disk:
1. Review the physical disk to be erased. Ensure that it does not contain necessary data and make a backup if necessary. If you
want to blink the physical disk, click Blink button.
2. Click Clear when you are ready to erase all information on the physical disk. To exit without clearing the physical disk, click
Return to Previous Page.
To Locate Clear In Storage Management
To locate this task in storage management:
1. In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller objects.
2. Expand a controller object.
3. Expand the enclosure or Backplane object.
4. Select the Physical Disks object.
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Physical Disks Or Physical Devices